Buying Call of Duty 4

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HotStuff

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Downloading from steam it's $69.95 + tax = $85.40, that's just over £41.

Yet in the states its $49.95 + tax.

You don't think steam are trying to take advantage of the weak dollar do you?

I ordered it from amazon at £29.99 but won't get it for a few days.

All the hype about this game.....hmmmm....it better be good.
 
waterproofbob

waterproofbob

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Tetsuo_Shima said:
I can assure you, it certainly is! There's helichoppers in it, too! (but you've got to earn those)
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and you have no control over them. :p
I really enjoy it, I find it really enjoyable and you get to shoot people which is all I really want from a game.
 
Tetsuo_Shima

Tetsuo_Shima

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waterproofbob said:
and you have no control over them. :p
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From my perspective, that can only be a good thing :p

I should add, HotStuff, that Call of Duty (assuming you haven't played any of the CoD games before, am I mistaken in that belief?) is a lot less positional and strategic than most of the games you seem to be interested in, instead it focusses more on out-and-out shooting ability and reactions (but not quite to the same extent as the UT games, there's still a bit of 'positional' in there in terms of which bomb to go for or which points to cover). I know you can put yourself about handily as a shootist, but you might find it a bit of a different experience to grander-scale games like Battlefield and NS. Still, I think you'll find it rare fun :D
 
thatbloke

thatbloke

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If I was to buy the disk version of the game am I able to activate it on steam with the key?
 
Traxata

Traxata

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No bloke, I hath tried this approach.

And tets, He indeed has played previous CoD!
 
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HotStuff

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Just decided to download this off steam, think my delivery from amazon got lost in the post.

The single player game is pretty intense, the prologue on the ship had me jumping out my seat! The developers have really went out their way to make this seem 'real' and give a good combat experience.

The graphics are simply beautiful but I do have a pretty beasty machine at the moment so most things were up full giving a smooth 70fps.

The multiplayer game is like BF2 only speeded up 2 or 3 times. Everyone scuttles around the map like it's been their playground for the past 10 years. It took me about half an hour to realise that enemies either have no name above their head or is written in red.

The promotion system looks straight forward, uncomplicated and useful things to play towards.

The multiplayer maps are not simple, some are like mazes actually, so I think this game will take hours of practice just to get some sort of map awareness then I may get a chance to have...like a second or two to start to thinking about what I'm supposed to do...like defend or defuse or whatever is going on amist the bangs and clutters of insane warfare.

The satisfaction of killing an enemy is pretty good, the realistic rag doll way in which they hit the ground is pretty grusome but adds to the realism.

I hope that I can learn a bit more about this game from helpful THN players perhaps on our own server?
 
Ronin Storm

Ronin Storm

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HotStuff said:
I hope that I can learn a bit more about this game from helpful THN players perhaps on our own server?
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Working on that server thing. Need someone with both the game and plenty of upload bandwidth to push the majority of the game files up but that's in hand in a different thread.
 
Traxata

Traxata

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Tetsuo_Shima said:
Of course! It'd be great to show some new folks the game - and blow their heads off with big guns :)
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Or rather ... You'll need to come up against this :D

It would probably be best said that Countdown is my favourite map as I was doing utterly rubbish the round before where bob got 42 for 7 :p

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HotStuff

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That is certainly an excellent kill rate traxdata, far better than I will probably ever achieve, but if I may quote from a previous post I made on the thread:

TheHavenNet > Teams > Team Fortress 2 Clan --> THN Vs. DW| Clan

"Finishing in the top three of a public server game is really no accolade of your ability, team work or communication."

Do that in a clan match and you'll more than impress me!
 
Haven

Haven

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Got it also, sneakily downloaded it at work so I can play it tonight maybe ...
 
Ronin Storm

Ronin Storm

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I've also had it ordered, though my first order didn't go to plan (so, just when do you list something as Call of Duty 4 when it's actually Medal of Honour: Airborne?) but hopefully that'll be resolved shortly.
 
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